Can one really escape violence in what seems to be a hostile place? They both depict peaceful places and spaces but they also show how conflicts and bomb attacks brutally change urban and natural landscapes. Our main interest here is the representation of Pakistan in the novels of Nadeem Aslam and Fatima Bhutto. Its conceptual tools reveal the multiplicity of senses involved in the perception of a place (polysensoriality), as well as its different spatial-temporal strata (stratigraphies), the different texts written about it (intertextuality) or the diverse points of view of those who observe it (multifocalization).
Abstract As a comparative method and literary theory, geocriticism helps studying “cultural interactions” between places and their representations. Juliane Rouassi, « A Geocritical Approach to Literary Representations of Pakistani Spaces », in Emmanuelle Peraldo (éd.), Literature and Geography: the Writing of Space throughout History, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, to be published in January 2016, p.